‘i18n’ Videos

December 2, 2016 — – How do I make my plugins and themes available to the whole world?
– Which functions should I use and how do I prepare the strings?
– What are the .pot, .po, and .mo files and why are they no longer needed?
– What should I do if someone has sent me a translation for my project?

May 30, 2016 — Plugin/Theme i18n: How to prepare your plugin or theme for translate.wordpress.org
With Claudio Sanches, author of more than 40 plugins in the WordPress plugin repository and General Translation Editors for Brazilian Portuguese.

September 29, 2015 — Even as WordPress continues to globalize, many theme and plugin authors still do not implement internationalization/localization functions into their code; for one of two reasons. One, perhaps they simply don’t realize it’s a “thing” – I hope this presentation will change that fact. Two, they’re afraid of learning the ins and outs of the necessary functions because it can seem confusing at first – I hope this presentation will demonstrate how easy it can be.
In this presentation I’ talk about why i18n/l10n is important, use examples that show how to use many of the more common translation functions, and with luck get more developers to use them in their products in the future.

August 26, 2015 — In 2014 after the release of WordPress 4.0 international downloads of the software surpassed English downloads for the first time. This flash talk explains what lead to that and how a team of amazing WordPress contributors who translate the software in hundreds of languages made that leap possible. It clarifies the terms internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) and explains the benefits of writing translation-ready plugins and themes. It also gives useful tips on how to get started contributing to the WordPress Polyglots team.